Bob Dylan / Live 1962 – 1966: Rare Copyright Collections 2CD set

To tie in with Bob Dylan‘s upcoming 2018 tour of Australia, Sony are issuing a new double-CD compilation called Live 1962 – 1966: Rare Performances From The Copyright Collections.
This two-CD set consists of previously released live recordings from 1962 – 1966 and “shines a light on some great performances that were initially overlooked, with most of the recordings now near impossible to find.”

This originally appeared to be a Japan-only release, but it seems now to be much more widely available. Indeed, it’s great value, priced at around the £10 mark, or less, so definitely worth picking up.

Live 1962 – 1966: Rare Performances From The Copyright Collections will be issued on 27 July 2018 and is a CD-only set.

Good news! This is great to see a copyright release get an affordable CD release. I had seen this on iTunes, fully expecting it to be the only purchase point. Was pleasantly suprised to see this show up.

Your issue in doing this is that Amazon.com.au often has no listing for titles before release date.For example as of yesterday there was no listing for next weeks cd releases of Welcome To The Blackout or Florence And The Machine.
Also beware the dreaded “available in 4-5 weeks” which seems to be common among new releases even if they are out locally.
In other Amazon.com.au they have launched Prime but here it means you will probably get it in a few days which is different to Prime elsewhere.Only 10 days to an Amazon free life.

It would be very interesting to see the Australian prices in UK pounds. It could show the world how much of a rip off prices are in Australia. I generally don’t buy new releases in Australia unless they are discounted.

As referred to in the title. These are selections from the Copyright extension collections (aka The 50th Anniversary Collections 1963, 1964, 1985) which saw a very limited release between 2010 and 2015.